Woman quits viral video-making job via viral video

The way Marina Shifrin quit her job has launched an avalanche of offers from others who want to hire her and garnered about 5.5 million YouTube views in the process.

Shifrin, who worked at Next Media Animation until this past weekend, posted an online video in which she boogies around her office alone at 4:30 a.m. to Kanye West’s “Gone,” with captions that explain why she’s so over her job. She’s sacrificed years and relationships, leaving her home in the U.S. for the job in Taiwan. Next Media cares only about page views, not quality of content, she continues. So, she quits in “the most Internet way possible,” to quote the Daily Dot.

Now, the Internet’s reacting, which is a spectacle unto itself. Shifrin has fielded job offers and marriage proposals via Twitter and Reddit, among other channels. That video, from the gal whose job it was to make viral vids, went viral. And now we’re all Googling her to find out that Shifrin is a talented writer and comedian. She’s been published in the New York Times and performs stand-up around New York City.

Seems like her work life leading up to the outburst was pretty tense and, according to her own tweet-fessions, wound up sending her to the hospital.

But things are looking up. We’ll probably see her employed by the end of the week.